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MATCH LETTERS

Prepare a card for each child with their name on it and individual cards with the letters of their name. The children match the letters on their name card.

ALPHABET SNACKS

A.....Apples, apricots
B.....Bananas, bread and butter, butterscotch
C.....Carrots, cupcakes, cookies
D.....Doughnuts, dip (for vegetables or crackers)
E.....Egg salad, hard boiled eggs, english muffins
F.....Fruit, figs
G.....Grapes, graham crackers, gumdrops
H.....Honey butter,(recipe follows), honeydew melon
I.....Ice cream bars, ice cream sandwiches
J.....Juice, jam, jelly
K.....Kielbasa, kale
L.....Licorice, lemonade
M.....Marshmallows, milk, melba toast
N.....Nuts, nectarines
O.....Oranges, oatmeal cookies
P.....Pineapple, popcorn, pickles
Q.....Quiche,(recipe follows), quick drink (instant fruit punch)
R.....Raisins, raspberries
S.....Strawberries, sandwiches, sunflower seeds
T.....Tomatoes, tuna fish, taffy
U.....Upside down cake (recipe follows)
V.....Vegetables, vanilla pudding, vanilla wafers
W.....Walnuts, watermelon
X.....X-tra special treats (recipe follows)
Y.....Yogurt, yams
Z.....Zucchini, zwieback toast

ALPHABET SNACK RECIPES

HONEY BUTTER

INGREDIENTS: 1 cup honey
8 oz. container of whipped butter
Mix the honey and whipped butter together in a large bowl. Chill. Serve on bread or toast.

QUICHE

INGREDIENTS: 1 frozen unbaked pie shell
1 medium onion
2 tbsp. vegetable oil
4 eggs
1/2 lb. swiss cheese
Preheat oven to 400. Bake the frozen pie shell for 10 minutes. Remove. Chop and saute the onion in the oil. Beat the eggs, grate the cheese. Place onions on the bottom of the pie shell, then pour the eggs over the onions. Sprinkle the grated cheese over the eggs. Bake for 45 minutes. But into 12 wedges, then cut the wedges in half. Makes 24 small servings.

UPSIDE DOWN CAKE

INGREDIENTS: 1 stick of butter
1 c. brown sugar, tightly packed
29 oz. can of sliced peaches,drained
1 package of yellow cake mix.
Preheat oven to 350. Melt the butter in the bottom of a 9x13 cake pan. Sprinkle brown sugar over the butter. Place the peaches on top of sugar, prepare the cake mix, pour the batter over the peaches. Bake for about 50 minutes. Let cool for 30 minutes. Invert cake onto a cookie sheet.

X-TRA SPECIAL TREATS

INGREDIENTS: 1/4 c. butter
1 4 oz. bag of marshmallows
1 c. peanut butter
6 c. rice krispies
Melt the butter in a pan over medium heat. Add marshmallows and peanut butter, stirring until all marshmallows have melted. Add the cereal. Mix well. Press into a greased 9x13 pan. Refrigerate, then cut into bars and serve.

NAME PICTURES
With a black marker the teacher copies each child's name across the top of a piece of construction paper. Then make a column below each letter in the name. Give each child a magazine and the construction paper with their name on it. Have the children look for pictures of items that begin with each letter of their name. The children cut the pictures out and glue them in the correct column.

SCRATCH AND SNIFF NAMES
On pieces of paper, write each child's name in glue. Hold the papers over a pan and have each child sprinkle the name with gelatin and then shake off the excess into the pan. Set the papers aside to dry completely. Allow the children to trace, smell and feel the letters when dry.

DISPLAY BOX
Decorate a box and make all the alphabet letter putting velcro on the back of them and on the side of the box, so that you can change the letter each week. Inside the box have the children bring things that are the letter you are studying and then show them at circle time. Here is a Letter Rhyme you can use to say when looking at the things in the box.

A, A, what begins with A?
Take a look and you will see
What begins with the letter A.
Changing the letter when you do a different one.

Fill a photo album with pictures of the alphabet you are studying.

THE ALPHABET BY US
Spread a white sheet on the floor, then have small groups of children lie on the sheet in the shape of each alphabet letter. Photograph each letter as it is made. When the prints are developed, mount each picture on a sheet of construction paper. Around each picture, attach stickers, or glue magazine pictures of items that begin with that letter. Laminate the pages, then bind them together.

LETTER BOXES
Ask parents to help you fill these handy letter boxes for use with various alphabet activities. In advance, collect 26 empty Huggie Baby Wipe boxes. Use a permanent marker to label each container with a different letter of the alphabet (both upper and lower case). Send home a different letter box with a different child each day. Request that parents contribute one or more small items that start with the letter shown on the box. When you have an assortment of items in each box, use the boxes to introduce beginning sounds to your children, as well as reinforcing letter recognition.

TEACH THE CHILDREN THE ALPHABET IN SIGN LANGUAGE. THEY LOVE THIS ACTIVITY THE MOST. ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU TEACH THEM HOW TO SPELL THEIR NAME IN SIGN LANGUAGE.

LETTER CHART
Show the class a chart of letters of the alphabet. Count how many there are. Recite or sing them together. Can anyone identify some of the letters? What letter does the name of each child begin with?

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